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A roaming conversation between brothers covering Trump to the Kansas City Chiefs controversy.
Host by:

- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:19) Introduction

(00:01:00) Controversial Football Tactics

(00:04:54) Technology in Sports: Chips in Footballs

(00:09:05) Super Bowl and Team Biases

(00:09:42) Trump's International Relations

(00:12:28) Immigration Policies and Enforcement

(00:20:01) Inspector Generals and Government Trust

(00:23:00) Justice Department Firings

(00:25:51) State-Level Prosecutions for January 6

(00:28:25) Impeachment Talks and Political Parallels

(00:31:10) Trump's Executive Orders Blitz

(00:33:00) Government Employee Buyouts

(00:35:56) Canada's Energy Supply Threat

(00:37:00) Trump's Negotiation Tactics

(00:39:39) Gen Z's Political Shift in the UK

(00:42:01) Racial Blame and Historical Context

(00:45:37) US-Mexico Border Tensions

(00:48:58) Business and Technology: Deep Seek AI

(00:57:29) X's Financial Services Expansion

(01:02:25) Supersonic Jet Innovations

(01:03:27) Police Technology: Vehicle Tracking

(01:08:59) Meat in Rice: Food Innovations

(01:14:37) Drone Approvals and Public Perception

(01:15:05) Liquor Licenses for Funerals

[00:00:20] Jesse Fries:

Good morning, everybody.   It is Wednesday,   January 29th and we are live with episode number 22 of the Mindless Meandrin.   I'm Jesse Friese coming to you from Central Texas,   where I'm wondering if some of my friends will actually calm down and realize it's not as bad as they seem to think.  

[00:00:40] Jamon Fries:

And I'm Jamin Friese coming to you get you from eastern Kansas where   the Chiefs are in the Super Bowl again.  

[00:00:47] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. By cheating.  

[00:00:49] Jamon Fries:

Cheaters.  

[00:00:49] Jesse Fries:

Cheaters. Yeah. Puppet. Yeah. Yeah. Cheaters.  

[00:00:53] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Whatever.  

[00:00:56] Jesse Fries:

There's so many bad calls on that game. I swear to god. No. So many bad calls.  

[00:01:00] Jamon Fries:

I didn't really see a lot of bad calls.  

[00:01:03] Jesse Fries:

I mean, I Kelsey is a douche. 3.  

[00:01:07] Jamon Fries:

Well, I mean, you know,  

[00:01:08] Jesse Fries:

he he I can't really argue that one. He I him and Mahomes, I I I really think this is so   the Patriots, they had the stealing call, the whole scandal, right?   The Chiefs, I think it is they   Mahomes has even said this,   they purpose I believe they purposefully go out there and try to get as many penalties.   It's like falling backwards and everything like that. It's like basketball crap.   You know, where you're trying to get the penalty and everything like that. And it's pathetic. Just play the freaking game you crazy   idiots.  

That's it's it's it's well,   Kelsey starts fights, and then he goes, oh my god. I'm innocent. That's what he does.   Mahomes, he he like, in the one game where he how we kinda slowed down right at the end trying to going out of bounds, trying to get a penalty for somebody pushing him. Yeah. He he's admitted to this. Yeah. That that one was a little bit out of there. Kelsey does the same thing, though, too. In the last game, he start he got in people's faces and everything like that, and then some guy came up and did something about it.   Chill   your crap. No. No. No. Chill your crap   because otherwise, it's and he does this all the time. He is he does it every play, basically.  

He is such a douche that he's just trying to get whacked. I swear to god. He wants he wants it. He wants the penalty. That's what they're going for. I that that that's my theory, at least. So yeah.  

[00:02:34] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I I can't really say that he doesn't want the penalty because,   he obviously   I mean, there's certain things that he does do draw those penalties. Yes.   I I don't know. I I can   in in many cases,   but I mean, there there's so many players that do that shit though. I mean, it's it's not just Kelsey. It's not it's not just Chase. It's everybody.  

[00:02:59] Jesse Fries:

I know, but   I I've   I always hate it when any player does it. It doesn't matter if it's Kelsey or not. I always hate those jackass players that come out there   and are talking smack in everybody's face and everything like that. I I I Percy,   you you do your job, get off the field. That's how I feel. You you don't go into all these theatrics, and he goes to theatrics. Like I've I've always  

[00:03:24] Jamon Fries:

hated the the players that, you know, they get tackled or something like that, and then they're just right up in the person in somebody's face just yelling and screaming at them, they're bumping into them, trying to get them to do something.   And I just   it's a sport. Goddamn it. You know?  

[00:03:42] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. Exactly.   And so you just you just add the yeah. And you just add all this up with everything else,   because everybody is looking at. I I have one article. Hey. Let's even talk about that. Why not? Let's talk about that article I had. So,   remember during the game, we're   trading text messages back and forth. Right? Yeah. Yep.   And I told you that, they're gonna have to pray, like, put a chip in the freaking football so that Oh, yeah. Yeah. We actually know where it is. You so you if you know you actually got a first down or something like that. Soccer I can definitely see that coming. Soccer   has been doing it for a decade.  

Have they really? Yes. They've been doing it for a decade. That's what this article is about that I put on the Chiefs.   Yeah.   Soccer,   in,   like, the Premier League and everything like that. So over in Europe,   England, they do that. They have the tracker so that it they'd know when it crosses the line.   And then since you have the   the 2, first down touches,  

[00:04:44] Jamon Fries:

markers and everything like that, they have the cameras already. You just put in Oh, yeah. Yeah. The sensors and you put put a put a chip in the flags and you put a chip in the ball and   it dings when it crosses. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. So  

[00:04:59] Jesse Fries:

to to me, that that would because in the that   4th down try of the bills,   the guy who was that was gonna market as a first down, he was on the side where he could actually not necessarily see the ball, but he could see where the ball was,   like, hidden, but he could see. The other guy was on the back. The other ref that made it so that wasn't he was on the back. He had no reference point of arms or anything like that. The other guy that was gonna get the first down   and then change his mind for the chief's favor.  

[00:05:35] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   When when when you have 2 line judges that come across like that, it's it's always very shady and it's it's something that, you know, everybody can complain about, you know, the, the line judge coming down.   Because when looking at the, looking at the video,   I could see part of the ball   from behind.   Right. But I could and   and during the time where he made the last lunch to get across the line,   there was a chief's player blocking the view of the ball from the, from the side that that was facing the ball.   So I don't but, I mean, this is just where the cameras are. I have no idea what the what the line judges are actually seeing. No. Yeah. I know. I know. It's You know, I there there's a very good possibility that it crossed the line, but there's also a possibility that it didn't. You know? That is it's it's one of those calls where it's just it's it's hard to know for sure. To me and you you you're in Chiefs country. So so you're in that little speck on the map of America that actually wants the Chiefs to win.  



[00:06:42] Jesse Fries:

So you say you you can't tell, but then the rest of America is going, yeah. That was a first down, bitches.   I'm just saying.  

[00:06:51] Jamon Fries:

Well, the the the the thing that I the thing that I find hilarious is that   a lot of the a lot of the people that that were saying it was face down on x and stuff like that Uh-huh.   The the pictures that they were showing   were from way up from, like, downfield and stuff like that and up at an angle. And they're like, see, he he may have got a 1st down because his head crossed over the the line of scrimmage. And I'm like,  

[00:07:16] Jesse Fries:

no. That's not how it works. See, those those are people that don't understand how the game really works. You you you know? Yeah. It's not the head. It's where the football is. And even from the Yeah. From the lines and everything like that, I   to me, it from how the arms are crossed, you would know that a ball is there and so on and so forth. So you you you know, I know per, like,   review,   it might cause a problem. But in all essence, I think everybody knew that it crossed the line   is how this is how I'm saying it. The review how the reps actually have to do it because they have to have actual hard proof blah blah blah, all this crap. Right. Yeah. They they have to like to follow the video footage, which does and, you know, the the the video footage doesn't show definitively,  

[00:07:59] Jamon Fries:

which,   I mean and and quite honestly, I mean, until you have something like a sensor in the ball,   it's all visual.   Yeah. There's little angles, you know, it it's there is no way to be 100%   accurate. Yeah. So we need the sensors in the ball. Plain and simple. Absolutely. I I can totally agree with that. I I I don't see a problem with that. I really don't. It makes sense to me. It wouldn't it wouldn't change I mean, the the size of technology now, it wouldn't change the weight of the football at all. I mean, it wouldn't change it wouldn't change anything with the ball, so why not do it? They do it in soccer. So  

[00:08:34] Jesse Fries:

yeah.   Oh,   sorry. Football. Football. As they call it   as they call it over there. No. It's soccer. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah.   Okay. So   we we we covered the the real controversy   of of of today's day and age right now. The Chiefs. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody's rooting against them. Well, actually, people hate hate the Eagles too. So   I I don't   I've I've seen so many people go, I'm just not watching. So  

[00:09:05] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. But yeah. Well, you know, there there there does come a point in time where you win too many games that people will see whatever they wanna see.  

[00:09:13] Jesse Fries:

I'm not saying that the refs are not being biased for the Chiefs Right. Because there are some times where it definitely does appear to be so. Yeah. It's like, what? That catch. That wasn't a catch. That was a catch. That was I I that was a weird one too. I swear. I I I I I don't even know what to do with that one.   There was so much mess there.   But, anyway, anyways, we we didn't get off the chief. We we we could go on for hours about this. Oh. We could. We could.   But,   well, I I guess we could get to Trump because that's pretty much all that's all in the news beyond that.   Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump is,   a l l. Yeah.  

Let's see. My favorite one,   is the Columbia one. That that was hilarious.   Where we sent down the Oh, yeah. Military planes, the c 17s, I think it was, or c 13. I think it was c 17s. But anyways,   then,   apparently, we had handcuffed these guys because, well, they're technically criminals.  

[00:10:17] Jamon Fries:

They they are criminals.  

[00:10:18] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. And the Colombian president didn't like that.   And so Yeah.   He said we   can't land even though they said we could land.   And   then, Trump, I'm gonna put tariffs on you.  

[00:10:34] Jamon Fries:

So then they threatened tariffs back, and, well, you know, they caved real quick after that.  

[00:10:39] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. They they they caved real quick, and the president down there decided to go, okay. Well, I'll just send my presidential plane for them. But apparently, they also agree but then they've also agreed   to allow   military planes to be used now too. That was Yes. Part of the agreement. So it wasn't just Yeah.   So those ones, maybe they didn't get off the plane there. Maybe they went down.   But, yeah, it's   I love that way. That that back and forth. It's,  

[00:11:10] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So so far there's not too many countries that aren't taking them back.   I've heard China's not letting them back into their country right now.  

[00:11:20] Jesse Fries:

Well,   that's   I haven't heard anything like that, but it wouldn't surprise me too much. It's China.   Yeah. Yeah. But   I I'm I'm I know there's there's illegals from every country in this country. Oh, yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know how in in the pervasive the Chinese   group  

[00:11:39] Jamon Fries:

is. Yeah. No. When when I was looking at the Colombia at 1, they they commented about other countries that, that were   that were not let that didn't we're talking about not letting him back, and China was one of them. And   the,   the guy in charge of ICE here in the US, like, I can never remember his name, but,   he was saying, you know, if China doesn't want them, we'll just find another country that will, because there's a lot of countries that'll that have told us we'll take everybody that that the other countries don't want.  

[00:12:13] Jesse Fries:

Makes sense. Makes sense.   I guess.   And,   but yeah. And then now what the white house is saying,   because some people are going,   You said you were only gonna go after criminals and everything like that. The new White House spokesperson   was hilarious. She goes, well, they all committed a crime and come in here illegally. So they're all criminals.   So   there we go.  

[00:12:42] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I mean, the, you know, the the,   they they did they never said that they were only gonna go after the criminals, though. I mean, Trump has said from day 1 that he was gonna send them all back. Right. Right. It wait. The it was gonna be,  

[00:12:56] Jesse Fries:

pry the violent criminals were it was gonna be they're gonna be prioritized.   And is that what happened? I mean, are No. That that that that's exactly what happened. But the way the media is spinning that is   that Trump is only gonna send back the violent criminals.   That this is how they but the the if you read all the news and everything like that, this is basically what they were spinning   is that he's oh, he said he was only gonna send the violent ones back and everything like that. But he said all illegals.   And if you get caught up in a net, well, guess what? You're illegal.  

Get out. This  

[00:13:35] Jamon Fries:

is the That's that's one of the things that I'd heard too about,   with, the sanctuary states and the sanctuary cities. Right.   The the, the head of ice was saying, you know, I I it's kinda bad for those places because they don't allow us to go into the prisons and into their jails to to pull the prison to pull those people out. Uh-huh.   So instead, they have to wait for them to get out and go home.   When they, when they go to to, when they go to arrest them to to secure them at home,   they're going to take everybody in that house that's illegal too.   They're they're not just gonna take the one person.  



[00:14:12] Jesse Fries:

No. They'll take them all. And if you have a kid, apparently, we're not gonna separate families. So that kid that might be American citizen,   under the old laws   may   may be,   set with you. Plain and simple. You know? It's like Yeah. You're illegal, so you're gonna abandon your child,  

[00:14:33] Jamon Fries:

or are you gonna take them with you? That that that's basically the options for them. So it's, plus that was kinda that that reminds me of a video that I saw with you saying that, you know, we we talked about the birthright citizenship last week. Right. But,   I saw a video where this guy   was holding his infant,   and he's like, I don't have to work because I I collect money from the government because of this child.  

[00:14:57] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Yeah.  

[00:14:59] Jamon Fries:

I I mean,   if if you're here illegally, at least work, you know?  

[00:15:05] Jesse Fries:

You would think so. You would think so, but,   I   I I'm sure most of them do.  

[00:15:12] Jamon Fries:

But then there's always gonna be those that don't. So, yeah, it's just Oh, yeah. Yeah. There there's always gonna be those that take advantage of the system. I mean, that's   that happens regardless. So   whether we, you know, citizens do that as well. So, you know,  

[00:15:27] Jesse Fries:

I yeah. See, this is why I   this is why I follow laws. I don't like the threat   of   police or anybody coming over. I I I don't wanna be afraid of this sound.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. Absolutely.   They're coming for us, Chip. They're coming for us.   I the fear of that, you know, in any country I I've been to, you know, it's like, no. No. I'm just gonna follow the laws.   Yeah. No. Absolutely. Yeah. Because I can't I I don't understand how   these people actually thought that they were safe here, but they were illegal. It just made no sense to me. Yeah. It's Yeah. You're you're illegal in this country, so you have no protections.   I'm sorry. Yeah. We can pick you up and send you out right away. These are the laws.  

You know? It's  

[00:16:21] Jamon Fries:

Yes. And they're they're laws that are absolutely necessary.   Oh, completely. Every country needs them. Every country has them. Yes. It's just, for some reason Not every country has them. There are some countries that don't.  

[00:16:33] Jesse Fries:

Well, right. But some people don't wanna go to those countries. Yeah.  

[00:16:38] Jamon Fries:

Well, yeah. Yeah. That that is absolutely true. But, also, you know, you you can see what happens to the inside of those countries.   Yes. Yes. Yes. It is. It becomes very bad very quickly.  

[00:16:48] Jesse Fries:

I saw a report that,   the UK prime minister is starting to   say, oh, I'm gonna crack down on the illegal immigrants. But he's, like, going against, like,   he he's   from the little bit I know, it was like he was going going to go against many, like, Eastern Europeans or something like that that are   they're an issue, but it's not that big of a deal. Instead of going after the violent   other ones. Yeah. It's like Yeah. Okay. Yeah.   How does that make any sense?  

[00:17:19] Jamon Fries:

And instead of going after the ones that are forming rape gangs and stuff like that, I mean, no. We gotta go after these somewhat peaceful ones. No. You always have to go after the peaceful ones. You know? It it always makes sense. Because they won't fight back.  

[00:17:34] Jesse Fries:

The the you know, there is that. There is that. You know? Yeah.   But but they've been we've been going after the violent ones. That's good. I I'm glad to see that. Yeah. Absolutely. They took down,   like, in Denver area. They took down the guy that the leader of the people that were taking over the apartment complexes and everything like that. Nice.   Nice. Yeah. So   yeah. Yeah. And and it was funny. The news said, well, that was a DEA,   or, setup and everything like that. It it's like other people are going, yeah. But now we can just go in and grab him because we know he's illegal. We we were trying to Yeah. Make this case before. Now now we just go grab him because he's illegal. Then we send him out. It's easier that way. Yeah. It's Yeah. We we no longer have to worry about prosecuting him. We're just gonna send him the hell out of the case. It's just bye.   Yep.  



[00:18:26] Jamon Fries:

Makes things a little bit easier. Makes things a little bit easier. Does. And it's it saves the court system a lot of money too.  

[00:18:33] Jesse Fries:

It really does. It really does. It it,   yeah. Just get rid of it. What more do you need? What more do you need?  

[00:18:42] Jamon Fries:

Yep. What's your legal status?   Don't have one. Okay. Well, then we don't have to send you to trial. We don't have to do any of that. You're going overseas.  

[00:18:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. All all I know, though, is that,   Carol, you know, she's an immigrant here. So Yeah.   When we when we travel south, we're close to the border. I'm good because there's checkpoints here in Texas. Right? You you might say. Right? Yep.   And so it's like, I'm gonna go, okay, Carol, We're bringing our,   our,   the card passports because we have the card passports as well as the paper ones.   So you can cross so you can cross into, like, Mexico and the Caribbean Yeah. Canada   on land or sea just with the card. So I'm good. We'll just carry that.   And they they won't they they won't be going, are you a US citizen? It's like, yeah. We can prove it. Here. Here's my passport. You know? Yep.  



[00:19:39] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely.  

[00:19:40] Jesse Fries:

It's just a small little card, so not a big deal in my book. So it's,   yeah. Yep.   Let's see here. What else do we got?   Trump, Trump, Trump.   You wanna   talk about the DAs being fired or whatnot?  

[00:19:56] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah.   The, well, not DAs being fired. The you mean the inspector generals?  

[00:20:02] Jesse Fries:

Well, there's this inspector gen yeah. Yeah. I guess that works too. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:20:07] Jamon Fries:

I I didn't really   see much about the DAs being fired. I I did hear about it, but,   I know that,   that Trump is letting go a lot of inspector generals, which is causing a little bit of havoc,   which I don't really understand.   He's he's letting go of the the inspector generals of the departments   that were   basically   working against a group of the citizens of the United States.   I   Right. Right. The inspector general's purpose is to make it so that that can't happen. So let it go of them just kinda makes sense, doesn't it?  

[00:20:47] Jesse Fries:

It it it kinda does. It it it's actually inspector's   general is actually it's not it's it's general. It's just, like, general, not like a hello, general. Right.   Right. Yep. Wait. Yeah. No. The from what I understand, the main complaint, it's not necessarily that he actually did it. The main complaint is that   some people say that there's this 30 day thing that you have to give,  

[00:21:11] Jamon Fries:

to Congress. Supposedly that that you have to give notice to Congress. Right. Right.  

[00:21:16] Jesse Fries:

But I've seen it where I I I don't I haven't seen the law, but I've seen Right. The ones   that, like, are   for the democrats, the liberal side, they're saying, well, you you you need the 30 days. And then other people that are more on Trump's side, they say, no. You just have to notify within 30 days of their firing.   So, like, you fire and then you just notify within 30 days of the the fire. Well, you know, and and this  

[00:21:43] Jamon Fries:

to me, the second one just makes a hell hell lot more sense because   the inspectors general are all appointed by the president.  

[00:21:53] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[00:21:55] Jamon Fries:

And so it's they serve at the at the at the president's pleasure, which means that he can let go of them whenever he wants to. Yeah. No. All of the executive The branch does. Yeah.   Yeah. If if they if they were appointed by congress, then I could see having to to go to congress and say, I'm going to be letting these people go so that they can find somebody new to to replace them. But since they're appointed by the president and   they're now this is a his his now new term,   I would just assume that the inspector generals would be much like the directors. If he wants to replace them, he can.  

[00:22:34] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   The president can't touch anything that,   anybody that works for the congress,   or the Supreme Court. But, yeah, he can touch anybody,   that works for him. And that's pretty much all of the government. So Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:22:48] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That's all the bureau bureaucracy part of the government anyways.  

[00:22:52] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep.   And then he also fired,   a bunch of the justice department officials that were investigating him. He fired those,   the special counsels and whatnot. He just fired all those. So people are going, how dare you and everything like that. And then   the what was it? The attorney general   said,   where is it?   Lawyer from attorney general said,   to to these people that were fired, he said, you played a significant role in prosecuting president Trump. The proper functioning of government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates.   Given your significant role in prosecuting the president, I do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully.  

You're fired. Yeah. So  

[00:23:44] Jamon Fries:

makes sense to me. I think I think I would have gotten even further with that because   it was the Department of Justice dust of Justice that allowed   for the,   for requisitioning   lawyers' phones.   It was the dev it was the department of justice that broke almost every rule to prosecute Trump.   No. Yeah. Yeah. So they they they have proven that they cannot faithfully   uphold and and   uphold the laws of the United States   because they broke many of them in that prosecution.   Therefore,  

[00:24:18] Jesse Fries:

they don't deserve to be there. No. I I understand. I I this I don't know if that was the full memo, that was sent. Right. Right. It it was just a snippet that I saw in the article.   But basically, to to me, it was like,   we can't trust you. So you're fired, which the president   has the right to do per,   supreme court decisions. I think we've talked about that. Absolutely. Yeah. Yep. Yesterday or last week or whatnot. So  

[00:24:44] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   Yeah. And then there was, something that happened that,   it it's more on the state level now. Uh-huh. The January 6 participants,   the state level, the there's a few DAs now that are that are contemplating   prosecuting them on,   state and local charges.  

[00:25:04] Jesse Fries:

For what?  

[00:25:08] Jamon Fries:

One of the things that I heard was for conspiracy   because they booked the hotels   in their states.  

[00:25:15] Jesse Fries:

Conspiracy to do what?  

[00:25:17] Jamon Fries:

Well, to to storm the Capitol.  

[00:25:21] Jesse Fries:

But that's not a state crime.  

[00:25:24] Jamon Fries:

No. The storming of the Capitol isn't, but conspiracy allows them to get to to go to look at it too. Oh, I swear to God.   So because these people booked their hotels while they were at home,   the state can go says that they can go after them, and that's just a load of bullshit.  

[00:25:42] Jesse Fries:

But   yeah, no, that's bullshit. That's plain. I swear to God, these people, they, they, they, they'll just never be happy.  

[00:25:49] Jamon Fries:

Never fucking happy. That was, that was the, the da of Pennsylvania that was decide that wanted to do that. And there's, like, a 100 people that he's gonna try to charge with with state and local crimes for their actions   in somewhere that's not state or local.  

[00:26:05] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Wow. Wow. That is Yep.   That seems like strict quite a stretch. Just like the New York one of the Trump,   and   the with the porn star and whatnot, that whole decision. Yeah. Yeah. Stretch beyond belief.  

[00:26:21] Jamon Fries:

Oh, absolutely. Yeah.   Let's see. Yeah. It was,  

[00:26:28] Jesse Fries:

that that that really is crazy.  

[00:26:32] Jamon Fries:

So what is this article here that that I see that,   that they're looking at impeaching Trump again?  

[00:26:39] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Because well yeah.   Because that's what you do. Right? Trump's in office. You you you try to impeach him. You know? I it's it's Well, yeah. You do. You spend 4 years trying to impeach him.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's   basically, the idea is that   Trump   led the insurrection.   And so because of that, he can't be president, and so he needs to be impeached   is is the whole   the the   okay.   Liberals are going off the deep end just like,   Republicans did last time. You you you know, the whole,   what was that group?   The   Republican group that the wacky conspiracy   theories that   like,   as before,   Biden was sworn in, they had all these ones going Trump's gonna come back and so on and so forth. Do you remember all those?  

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The democrats have had the same thing this time around. They they they've been on TikTok. They're saying, like, before he was inaugurated, they're going, no. This is the plan. They're gonna bust him right before the inauguration,   and then Kamala will be president   and shit like this. Right?   And and and I've even seen some going, oh, Trump, he stole the election. It was a stolen election because they didn't allow every vote to be counted,   and so on and so forth. They're taking a page right out of what the Republicans were doing.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just   they're all the same.  

Every single last one of them are the same. It's it's some some of my   some of the friends on Facebook that I have on that side are   are into this, and you're just going,   no. No. It didn't work. No. For Trump, it's not gonna work for you. Trump's the president.   That's it. Get over it. I I I say the same thing to the Republicans. They should've gotten over it with Trump and everything like that. And, actually,   I actually think   if Trump   had been president   two terms in a row,   I believe it would've just been the   same shit show,   in the second term. It wouldn't have changed.  

He wouldn't have learned his lessons.   He had 4 years to learn lessons to actually think about what wrong went wrong with his administration.  

[00:29:07] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I think that that break was actually a a godsend for him. Yeah. Because now he he he's on a freaking blitz.  

[00:29:15] Jesse Fries:

It's crazy.  

[00:29:16] Jamon Fries:

He is, it's it's like he he had 4 years to see what he did wrong  

[00:29:21] Jesse Fries:

Yes.  

[00:29:22] Jamon Fries:

And to see how to do it right.  

[00:29:25] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. He's really moving   at the speed that has   shows he's he learned his lessons from the 1st term.   He he's ensuring that people are loyal to the president,   because Yep. Well, that's   Biden come up for god's sakes. People were loyal to him. He did have a brain for at   least at least half of his term, and they were hiding it completely.   He probably didn't have it for most of it. But at least half of his term, he didn't have a brain. They were hiding it. Everybody knew this. You know, speaker Johnson   said so.   Yeah. You know? And   so he's ensuring people are loyal.  

Yep. And not only that, he's, like, doing a crowd defense   Yeah. Yeah. With his blitz of orders. You know? You know? It's like,   and he knows they won't all survive, you know, all all of his orders.   But you you have to pick which ones you're gonna go for. And the media has to pick which ones will we actually   harp on   and try to actually get under the skin   and into the people's minds. But which one are you gonna pick? Are you gonna pick the border? Are you gonna pick the funding freeze? Are you gonna pick birthright citizenship?   Are you gonna pick the firing of the inspectors general?  

Which  

[00:30:47] Jamon Fries:

There's there's so many, and it's such a wide variety of things. Yes. You know, the Yes. The the one thing that I've that I've been hearing from a lot of places,   and even Democrats, even the the Democrat,   talk shows and stuff are are saying this,   you know,   Trump is fulfilling   every promise that he made with these with these orders.   Yep. Yep. He told us he was going to do this and he'd done it. Now it may not survive.   Oh, yeah. But he's he's attempted to do it.  

[00:31:21] Jesse Fries:

He he's attempted. He he's doing,  

[00:31:24] Jamon Fries:

he's He's one honestly, he's he's one of the first presidents in a very long time   that is actually holding himself to the promises that he made during the during the election. Yeah. And right off the bat, you know?  

[00:31:37] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. The the the the two phrases that are   really making me just laugh inside   with Trump nowadays   is the,   promises made, promises kept. You you know, that one. He he he's they're really pushy that one. And then my other favorite one is the FAFO.  

[00:31:57] Jamon Fries:

Do you know what that one means? Have you seen that one? I've heard it, but I've never I I don't know exactly what it means.  

[00:32:03] Jesse Fries:

It's the fuck around and find out is what it is. Oh, yeah. Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. Because that's been a, you know, a lot   lately.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. So and so that's what it is. The the that's what he's saying. It is, well, fuck around and find out. We we we'll go with this. You know? So it's,   a that looks slightly up.  

[00:32:26] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:32:27] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. What else do we got? Oh, Trump. I think I have another one   on Trump.   Trying to remember which one it was. Let's see. You've got his,  

[00:32:42] Jamon Fries:

offer to 2,000,000 Oh, yeah. Workers to buy out their resigning?  

[00:32:46] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. So he he's just playing the basic business move.   General Motors did it, what, last year or the year before that. They said, okay. Yep. It's just basically,   it's voluntary separation is what it is. So it's like, okay. So if you just voluntarily leave, we will give you this nice pay package. And that's what he's doing. It's, what is it? 8 months, severance.   If you That's pretty good. Yeah. Up until September.   Because you you would be out   something like February 1st, and then you would 8 have 8 months severance. So   and he figures that this will actually get rid of about 5 to 10%   of   the government.  

And see, this can actually it's a huge thing, especially for those really close to retirement.   Oh, yeah. Because they could just take that money and then just put that right into retirement.   And we'll boost their retirement savings.  

[00:33:46] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:33:47] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. They a lot of people close to retirement   take these all the time. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then some people just sick and tired of the job, and they wanna find something else that gives them 8 months   to find something else, to find the passion. Yeah. It's a it makes a lot of sense to me.  

[00:34:04] Jamon Fries:

And then there and then there's people that know that their job is very redundant and that,   any audit will   say that their job is worthless, so they're gonna go out anyways.   Yeah. Yeah. Go out this way.   Like that lady in I can't remember. Uh-huh.  

[00:34:19] Jesse Fries:

What's that? Oh, there was that lady. I can't remember what department, but she was, like, head of DEI.   And then once Trump came into office and said the executive order, they changed her title.   Yeah. Trump will probably find out about that one.   Oh, yeah. That could go as well. So, you know, it's, Yep.   So maybe she should just take that 8 month severance.  

[00:34:39] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And they'll find something else. It makes sense. If if you know your job is over anyways,   you might as well take the 8 months severance and go voluntarily.  

[00:34:48] Jesse Fries:

Oh, completely. It makes sense to me.   It's a perfect thing. It is a perfect thing. Yep.   Yep.   Let's see here. And,  

[00:34:58] Jamon Fries:

then, general Milley's security detail and clearance has been revoked.  

[00:35:04] Jesse Fries:

Well, right. Right. Because   well, yeah. He he wouldn't obey orders Trump's orders last time around. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get rid of them. Play and simple. Yep. There is a lot of people there is a lot of people complaining about that now, though,  

[00:35:18] Jamon Fries:

because I guess Iran is has has him targeted or something.  

[00:35:22] Jesse Fries:

Hey.   Iran   targets everybody.  

[00:35:26] Jamon Fries:

They they really do.  

[00:35:28] Jesse Fries:

It was   he was   he was the top general. So guess what? He he Yeah. Already has enough money. And he'll just go into, like, Raytheon or something like that, Halliburton.   And Well,  

[00:35:41] Jamon Fries:

I I don't know because his his security clearance has been revoked as well. Oh, yeah.   Yeah.   So he can't go into those?  

[00:35:50] Jesse Fries:

I I I'm sure a lot of people owe him some favors. We'll see.   Yeah. Yeah.   Yeah. No. It it that that is the retirement for a lot of people in military is, to retire from the military and then go into the private sector.   Yep. If you take away the the security clearances,   they are screwed.  

[00:36:09] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It eliminates a lot of potential possibilities.  

[00:36:15] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm. Completely.   Let's see here. Along those lines, there's Canada. They wanna cut off our energy supply,   so that's fun.  

[00:36:24] Jamon Fries:

Do we get much energy from them?  

[00:36:29] Jesse Fries:

I don't know what percentage of our energy it is. I know that   most of our imports of, like, oil   comes from Canada.   Like, 89%   of our imports   come from Canada when it comes to oil. But then we also share an electrical grid.   And so some some people over there, especially like in the northeast,   people up there say, oh, let's just cut off their electricity.   Yeah. Good. Okay.   Let's see how Trump reacts to that one. Yeah.   It's   a but   yeah. I don't know. It's a Trump's blustering.   This is what he does. Let's see what it actually comes to. Yeah.  

[00:37:10] Jamon Fries:

I mean, it it's all a negotiation  

[00:37:12] Jesse Fries:

tactic for him. So No. It is. It is.   You you know, everybody loves to, like, compare him to Hitler, but there there there's a main difference between Hitler. Hitler had Mein Kampf, which was a crazy rant about Jews.   And Yeah. Trump had making a deal.   Yeah. It's  

[00:37:29] Jamon Fries:

it it to me, that shows there When your when when your entire mentality is based on the deal.   Yes. You know? You you can't be a you can't be a fascist dictator when you're talking about making deals all the time. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. Well,  

[00:37:46] Jesse Fries:

you could be fascist, just not Nazi fascist. Yeah. You know? You know? There's there's   fascism and then there's Nazism.   You you know, there's these things are too   they're they're they're they're they're a little bit alike. Nazism has fascism, isn't it? But Nazism   just was they went crazy. Completely crazy. They blamed everybody else. Trump's just trying to get out the illegals. I I don't see an issue with it personally. So Yeah. Not me either.  

[00:38:14] Jamon Fries:

It's something that should have been done a long time ago. Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[00:38:19] Jesse Fries:

It really should have.   And then we have,   looks like, in the UK, Gen z, just like here, they're becoming more   conservative,   especially the men. Okay.   To the point where more of Gen z over there wants a dictator.   They're tired of they're tired of democracy.   So   it's I mean, the Democracy  

[00:38:46] Jamon Fries:

is not a good form of government.  

[00:38:49] Jesse Fries:

It's a crazy form of government, but It is.  

[00:38:53] Jamon Fries:

It   it it allows insanity to take control.  

[00:38:57] Jesse Fries:

Well, right. Right.   But then it also   allows for,   like, steam valves and everything like that that will reduce pressure in the system and everything like that. You can actually vote people out if they get too crazy.   There's also Yeah. Like, term limits and everything like that. So it may be crazy for a little bit, but   it'll get back to normal. You know? It's Yeah. Yeah. Unless unless if the people don't want the normal, then it won't. Right. Yeah.  

[00:39:29] Jamon Fries:

Unless unless the abnormal can convince enough pee enough normal people to want the abnormal.   Yep. And then if that happens, then the country is just screwed.  

[00:39:39] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. They really are. They really are.   Well, yeah, apparently,   also,   like, the white young gen z's over there, they're all they're just like over here, they're getting tired of   being blamed for everything. Oh, yeah.  

[00:39:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:39:55] Jesse Fries:

No matter what, they're being blamed for everything.   And it's been going that way for the last   10, 15 years.   White man has been put down. They they were crap and everything like that, especially white straight,   men. And it's just Yeah. And they're sick of it over there as well. It's what is what's happening.   They're just tired of it. Oh, yeah.  

[00:40:17] Jamon Fries:

So It makes a you know? Absolutely. Yeah. It it's   it does get very frustrating when every day you hear   that you're evil.   Yeah. Yeah. You're basically evil in current because you were born white and male, and you're not homosexual.  

[00:40:34] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. It it it's   and they have to know what they're doing because they say representation matters.   Yes. And when you hear a message over and over and over and over Oh, yeah. Over again,   what is that gonna do to your psyche, especially when you are a young, malleable   child?   You know, it's   my kids don't have to worry about that because they're mixed. But,   hey, it's messed up. It is completely messed up. Yeah. You you know, you don't do this to anybody. You know? It's Yeah. No.  

[00:41:08] Jamon Fries:

No. No. If if could you imagine anyone going out there and saying   that   the problem with with the world as a whole is the   black men,   black straight men?   Could you imagine  

[00:41:25] Jesse Fries:

how much shit people would get in for that? There'd be people killed for that. Yeah. Probably so. No. It's, well, I'm I'm sure some people have said that, but, not prominent people. Well, yeah.  

[00:41:37] Jamon Fries:

But yeah. Yeah. No. It it's But, I mean, if if the media were to come out and start then just   story after story after story saying   that the black young male is the e is evil incarnate,   could you imagine   what that would do   to the world?   Whereas now that they're doing it to white straight men,   there's it. It's like nobody cares.  

[00:42:01] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. Be because   everybody   in the past was bad. And so it justifies doing it to this younger generation, which cracks me up. I don't understand how you can equate that. They didn't do anything. So but you're blaming them for what their ancestors   did.  

[00:42:18] Jamon Fries:

We we which makes But, you know, I and I I fully understand that aspect of it. However,   if you look into history,   it's not like they're the first   it's not like the white male   was the first group to to do all of this bad stuff.   I mean, when when we got it when when we got into when the Europeans   and the Americans got into slavery,   it was already rampant   in Africa and the Middle East.   No. Yeah. I mean, we we just tapped into the system that was already created.  

[00:42:53] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Now we the system did   because there was a racial aspect to it, it did actually   lead   to a worse system.  

[00:43:04] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Yes.  

[00:43:05] Jesse Fries:

Much more inhumane.   Be be because it led to chattel slavery to where you're a slave, so your son's a slave and so on and so forth. This wasn't always the case. You were a slave. Yes.   Well But not possibly your children. It depends on the system. It depends on the system.  

[00:43:20] Jamon Fries:

In the Middle East, it was similar to that. There was one difference though, is that the male   offspring, if if the if you had an offspring that was   between a Arab and a slave Uh-huh. The male offspring   would be considered Arab, whereas the female offspring would would continue the slavery.   Okay. Would continue in slavery. So the, the, they did have the, that same type of system. If it was, if it was a child between 2 slaves, it was born as a slave. Okay. Okay. But, yeah, it's, it's  

[00:43:52] Jesse Fries:

also   yeah. No. It it but it's a different system than a lot of different places and everything like that. The  

[00:43:59] Jamon Fries:

the diff the I think the biggest difference is that in in the Arab world,   it wasn't just black slaves.   Well, right. Here in the US, it was only blacks that were slaves, and so that gave them a complete that gave just that one race a completely   different,   result.   I mean, it it it Completely.   Yeah.   And, you know, it it got to the point that I think another problem here in the US that would have never happened in in the Arab societies   is once a slave was free   here in the US, if you saw a free black man walking around, you could just go and claim his claim him as your own slave. Well,  

[00:44:41] Jesse Fries:

in some areas. Yeah. In the It's just because it happened in the south. Yeah. Carrying his papers with him. Yep. Yep. Yeah. No. It it's there's stories like that and everything like that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was a   that's exactly it's the the racial aspect really Yes. Caused   massive   massive issues. Problems. Yeah. Massive problems. Definitely. So yeah. Yeah. I I'm right there with you. And yeah.   How did we get on that? I   I not we  

[00:45:15] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I don't know.  

[00:45:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No clue. Okay. The, the,  

[00:45:21] Jamon Fries:

the, white heterosexual male. Oh, got it. Got it. If it had been the blacks if it had been black, you know, that would have been an entirely different thing. No. I got it. Yes. Yes. That makes sense. That makes sense. Yes.  

[00:45:35] Jesse Fries:

Yes.   Let's see here. We also had the US border patrol exchanging gunfire with the drug cartels   down Yep. On the border.   So nobody died. I don't think anybody was even hurt. They were just shooting back and forth a bit.   Okay.   Apparently, things have gotten a little bit worse over the border. Every so often, the cartels would do that every so often. But now,   Yeah. Since Trump,   apparently, they're getting a little bit more   active. But it's only been, like, a week, so or a week and a half. So I don't know if we can say that yet. But yeah. Well, I mean, I I think it's actually that I don't think it's that they're becoming more active.  

[00:46:14] Jamon Fries:

It's that people are actually trying to stop them now.   You know? And if the Biden administration had attempted to stop them in any way, they would've been shooting throughout the Biden administration too.  

[00:46:25] Jesse Fries:

There is that. There is that. What do you mean they can't bring my drugs across?   Damn it.  

[00:46:32] Jamon Fries:

Exactly.   You know, it's amazing how that works. When you tell someone they can't do something, they're gonna fight back. Yep. Yep. Yep. That is crazy. That is crazy.  

[00:46:43] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. Here at Texas, a substitute teacher told,   on x said, come and get the illegals in our school. There's too many of them. They don't even speak English.   So   so he he's been suspended. Imagine that.   Oh, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This was in Fort Worth, so a big city. So he was, yeah. So they're investigating him and everything like that. So  

[00:47:12] Jamon Fries:

Well, that reminds me of, up in   was it, I think, Chicago   where   a couple of secret service agents went into a school in regard to a threat that was made.  

[00:47:25] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Yeah. And do we talk about this last  

[00:47:28] Jamon Fries:

year? No, I don't think we did, but the mayor and everything, everybody else   suddenly turned around and said it was ice that winked in to the school. Yep. Yep. I   mean, that's just the, the, the secret service agents left their left, their, their,   their business cards. They showed their credentials.   Everyone at that school knew that they were secret service.   Yep. And yet the politicians   come out and say it was ice that raided the school.  

[00:47:59] Jesse Fries:

Well, the school said it, I thought. I thought the school that's what the school told everybody. Yeah. The the the school super superintendent   did. Yeah. Yeah. So the school someone that was actually at the school. It was the school superintendent, which is a political position. Well, yeah. He's a he's a politician. So to me, that's a school. Yeah. He's a school superintendent. So yeah. Yeah. That that was a   that story was hilarious. It was like I saw news reports. Oh, yeah. Like like the lady going, so this is what we reported.   The story has changed a little bit.  

Yep.   But in the meantime, so many people on Facebook and, whatnot, they go off on a rant about it. Oh, of course. Of course. Yeah.   But, yeah, it was Secret Service investigating something completely different. So Yep.  

[00:48:47] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah.   But it's a  

[00:48:53] Jesse Fries:

what else do we got here?  

[00:48:59] Jamon Fries:

Well, let's get into some,   business.   Oh, Stuff. Uh-huh.  

[00:49:06] Jesse Fries:

Deep seek.   Deep seek. Lovely.   Yeah.  

[00:49:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So   essentially, from what I've heard, it's it's like chat GPT and everything else like that, but it's better on the mathematic and the   science side of things.  

[00:49:24] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:49:27] Jamon Fries:

But   the the big thing, the big reason that it had a that it had such an impact   that actually caused Nvidia stocks to drop by, like, 20%   and stuff like that   is because of how much cheaper they can they can produce the the AI.  

[00:49:42] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Hell of a lot cheaper.  

[00:49:45] Jamon Fries:

But that makes a lot of sense that it's cheaper because they're   probably have the backing of the Chinese government   who can go into every company and say, you are going to sell this person the information for this amount.  

[00:50:02] Jesse Fries:

They have that, but,   also, they were working with limitations on what could be imported and everything like that.   And   from what I understand, it is solely just like in their processes.   It it they have they figured out a much smoother way to actually make it work,   which reduced the costs   considerably   because they cannot get as many NVIDIA chips   and so on and so forth.   Because Right. They're they're embargoed.   We we NVIDIA can't sell to China.   Yeah.   So   this is how it I that to me is why it works. It doesn't take as much energy. It doesn't take anything.   So   and it's just as good, if not a little bit better in some areas. It's it's better in AI than 1. Like, 4 or 5 different areas. Yeah.  



[00:50:57] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And anything technology wise at in the tech or any any answers or any,   like,   one of the things it does is it will   for programming, it it can actually it can write code for you and stuff like that,  

[00:51:12] Jesse Fries:

and it seems that it's much better in that aspect than anything that's produced here in the US can do. Okay. That's kinda cool. That's kinda cool. Yeah. Yeah. No. It it to to me, it it that's that's how I've read it. I haven't read a   a single thing that actually said it's because Chinese government is subsidizing it. I haven't seen a single thing that says that. So There is nothing that'll say that. But  

[00:51:37] Jamon Fries:

the if if the Chinese government supports it, which I highly believe that they would Well, of course. Simply because simply because   this much you know, like TikTok, we have issues with TikTok because the Chinese government has accessed the information.   Well, with with deep seek,   the Chinese government would have access to   everything that people search for, any questions that people ask relating to anything,   any coding that you input in there trying to learn, trying to correct your coding   Uh-huh. To find to debug your coding, the federal the Chinese government would have complete access to all of the coding that you're working on.   So, I mean, it would just make absolute sense that the Chinese government would support this would support this program.  

And so   potentially, and I I don't know this for a fact, but potentially,   a lot of the Chinese,   universities and stuff like that are all government   are all run by the government.   So they would have access to everything, all of the information that's being taught and learned in the colleges to input into it. They would have information for businesses that work with the government   that, you know, any any business that collects data for the government, they would be able to access all that information as well, which would make it said it would be a lot cheaper for them to actually gain the the   the information.  

Or   well, no. I I have absolutely no doubt that the technology is a lot better too. No. No. No. No. No. No. Listen to my or.  

[00:53:09] Jesse Fries:

Okay.   Or   our corporations are greedy bastards,  

[00:53:15] Jamon Fries:

and they did not Well, that there is a large part in that too. Yes.  

[00:53:19] Jesse Fries:

Yes. There there is a there is a large aspect to that as well.   To to me, it's like, come on. You know, it's   Yeah. To to me, it never   it never made much sense   why it needed that much   energy because you can actually download   these,   AIs,   and you can have them working on your computer.   Yeah. I so   okay. The back end. Okay. So you're programming. That takes more power. But once you actually use it, it can be local,   which doesn't require   really anything else.  

[00:53:54] Jamon Fries:

So Yeah. Well, once once he once you know, that it's kinda funny. I was reading a book that,   that that absolutely nothing to do with reality, of course. Uh-huh. But it it I was reading a book that was dealing with somebody creating an AI system.   Right. And it was, it was it was a very, very advanced AI system. And,   you know, it was like, well,   the the AI system was explaining why the data why they would need such a small data to input the AI into devices.   Uh-huh. And it's like, well, because we've already learned everything, so we don't need to crowd to bring all that information across anymore.   Right. Right. We can for just just like, just like a baby forgets 90% of what it learns   to become a functioning human being.  

The   AI could I mean, there's a potential. I don't know if it's true, but there's potent but it would potentially   be able to forget a lot of the training   that went into creating what it what it is.  

[00:54:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. Makes sense. Makes sense.   It's like   just for humans. We we we process so many things without even knowing it, and it's just instinctual to us.   You you know, the computing power   to walk.   You you know, we we get to a point where we don't it's it's not even   it's like   a   a brain stem sort of thing almost. It's not quite Yep. That level. But, you know, it is so far in the back of the mind, you don't even think about it. You don't think about how to walk. It's not No. It's not a it's not a conscious effort.  

[00:55:25] Jamon Fries:

You know? I'm sure you actually think about it. The only conscious but the only conscious effort is I wanna go over there. Yeah. And then you just do it.  

[00:55:33] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   And then you could be thinking about other things as you go. It's like driving. Average of time, you know, you you you're just on that road, and you're thinking about other things. You're paying attention to the road and everything like that, but your brain starts to wander and everything like that. It's that sort of thing, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.   All I know is that the the Salesforce   CEO, whatever his name is,   he he said, well, this is business. You you   you have this, and then you have this better person come for cheaper.  

[00:56:01] Jamon Fries:

You know? There you go. That is the way that is the world that is the way the world works. I mean It is. You know, there's there's so many so many instances of that happening. Yeah. And China,  

[00:56:11] Jesse Fries:

the the the culture is weird. They're they're they're best price,   sort of society   to where   they don't start charging you more   once they have a monopoly.  

[00:56:25] Jamon Fries:

No. They don't, generally.  

[00:56:27] Jesse Fries:

We do.   Yeah.  

[00:56:30] Jamon Fries:

And so, you know Once once you're the only one that provides something like this, oh god. The price is triple.  

[00:56:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. If not more. Yeah. It it's, like, apparently, like, with silk. It was Japan mostly.   And then China   got the technology and then   cut undercut their prices, like nobody's business. And then once Japan was like out, they just kept the prices at the same level again. Yeah. Yeah.   It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It's Yep. So best price. That's also another thing to it. They're not trying to   do all this other thing. They're they're they're not trying to come up with   reasons why they need so much money. It's it's like pharmacies. It's like or pharmaceutical companies. It's like, no. We're we're we're investigating for the future. It's like, but this drug is cheap to make, but we're investigating for the future. And you're just like, oh, yeah. Okay. China would just go, oh, yeah. It's cheap. Here. Have it. Yeah.  

[00:57:23] Jamon Fries:

So Yep. Yep. Absolutely.   Yeah.   And then what's this about,   x beginning its push into the financial services?  

[00:57:36] Jesse Fries:

Musk has teamed up with Visa,   for payment processing and everything like that. Now they can transfer money from, like,   x into a bank   account   through the Visa system.   So Musk has always planned basically, he always   some people say that his main plan with x or buying Twitter was just to have it   as something that would be like, digital ID. It would be your bank. It would be your everything.   Is his plan for it. So so the whole idea that people were going crazy that, oh, he was losing all these sponsors and everything like that. That was never his end goal was to be a social media. It was to be your everything.   That was his goal   for x. Yeah.  

And he had that he had bought x.com   right when he could,   when URLs were basically coming out when he had enough money to buy it.   And that's been his pet ever since. And this is what he wants. He wants it to be your everything. He wants it to be your bank. He's getting the FDIC   stuff that he needs and everything like that. So he's actually really doing   quite a bit on the back end with x. So  

[00:58:51] Jamon Fries:

Okay. So he's so he's, basically   taking what he do with PayPal and expanded against expanding it even more.  

[00:58:58] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. He liked PayPal, but he Nice. Wanted to do it a bit different. Yeah. So he thought it could be Well, I pay PayPal had a lot of limitations and stuff like that that I mean, just just even technology limitations  

[00:59:12] Jamon Fries:

that it we just didn't have the technology to do what what we can do now.   Now there's already a lot of countries where you just you know, like, even here in the US, the for people that for places that accept it with the Apple Pay and stuff like that where you can just scan your phone Oh, yeah. And it makes the payment.  

[00:59:31] Jesse Fries:

And thank god more places are doing it for god's sakes. It was, like, for the longest time   up until, like,   sometime last year,   our grocery store, HEB, would not take, Apple Pay.   Home Depot would not take Apple Pay   or any and because they wouldn't take that, they you couldn't use any touch features. So you would actually have to insert your card every time.   Yeah. But last year, they finally   got their heads out of their butts.  

[01:00:01] Jamon Fries:

Nice.  

[01:00:02] Jesse Fries:

And now you can use a contactless,   payment,   at Home Depot at,   HEB here.   I think at Kroger now too. Kroger was one of those holdouts as well.   I think the I think the only one that doesn't allow it still is Walmart.   They just   they don't wanna pay those extra fees because it is extra fee,   to go through Apple Pay. It's like a 1% fee or something like that. So Yeah.  

[01:00:28] Jamon Fries:

I mean, I I can imagine that the security of it is a lot safer than than an RFID chip or something like that is because an RFID chip, you can scan from a distance away, whereas a program on your phone,   you really can't do anything about from you'd have to hack into the phone.  

[01:00:44] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. With with the phone, it is completely   it's as safe as safe can be really. You know? It's, Yeah.  

[01:00:52] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I love I I think I think that would be very good to go to that. I think we should get it eventually. Just get rid of credit cards as a whole and go to go to the phones because credit cards can be   it's so easy to to steal information off a credit card even if you never touch the card. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I I have my cards in,  

[01:01:14] Jesse Fries:

in my wallet.   Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So   is he anything nothing can get through or anything like that. So Yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. But, yeah, the contactless payment, that's the way to go. Plain and simple. It's, yep. When when you go overseas, it's so nice. It's like when you get on the tool Oh, yeah. The underground, you just tap as you go in, then tap as you go out and just charge you for the difference.  

[01:01:38] Jamon Fries:

It's awesome. I love it. Although from from what I've from both from books and stuff that I've read, it almost seems like the credit card   has become more of a status symbol in some countries   because you have to have a certain amount of money to have, like, a certain credit card. And so if you're very rich, you can just go in around and hand out that credit card, and they know automatically  

[01:02:01] Jesse Fries:

Black American Express card.   Yeah. Yep. That's   unlimited. You could just do whatever you want. That is a status symbol right there. It's a The only reason to carry it in many countries now is simply because it's a status symbol. Yeah. I could see that. I could see that.   Yeah.   Makes sense. Makes sense. AEL.   Yep.  

[01:02:25] Jamon Fries:

Let's see here. So what should we talk about next?   Oh, let's go into tech a little bit. Oh, yeah. Did you hear about the, boom supersonic XV1?   No.   It is the very first   privately funded, completely privately funded   jet to break the set to break mach 1.  

[01:02:46] Jesse Fries:

Oh, sweet.  

[01:02:48] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They're, they've it happened on Tuesday. Tuesday morning, they they broke mach 1.   The they are designed they they they design it it essentially looks like a fighter jet with but with much smaller wings since it doesn't need to do any any major maneuvers or anything like that. But,   the end goal of it is to and take what they learned building this and put it into a 55 person   passenger jet   that can exceed mock.  

[01:03:16] Jesse Fries:

So, basically, bring back the Concorde, basically. Essentially, yes.   Oh, yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool.  

[01:03:24] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   And then the police have a new technology out. Uh-huh. It's kinda cool.   You know, there there's been a lot of a lot of,   feedback for a long time now about how police chases are dangerous, and, you know, we shouldn't we shouldn't chase after the cars and stuff like that. Right.   Well, they have now they now have a technology   designed that   they launch a sensor at the car.   Uh-huh. It adheres to the back of the vehicle,   and the police can back off, and they just follow that sensor to wherever it goes.  

[01:04:01] Jesse Fries:

Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:04:05] Jamon Fries:

And, you know, the one one cool thing about it is,   they also have a a key fob for it. Uh-huh. So like you say, an officer gets out of his car and approaches a vehicle and it suddenly accelerates and takes off to 90 90% of the time that car gets away, usually.  

[01:04:21] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[01:04:23] Jamon Fries:

Now the officer has a key fob. He can push a button and it'll deploy the sensor as soon as the car starts moving.  

[01:04:30] Jesse Fries:

Interesting.   Interesting.   Yeah.  

[01:04:33] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No. I wonder what the hack team around that will be.   Yeah. The the one downside to that is that you can only track the car. You know, if if everybody gets out of the car and starts running, you have no way to track them. So Well, yeah.  

[01:04:47] Jesse Fries:

Just   tag them. Just tag them all. Tag everybody.  

[01:04:55] Jamon Fries:

But, so, I mean, that that is that is the one limitation to the technology, but it did   as this technology is brought out to the police departments, it should eliminate a lot of the high speed chases and stuff.  

[01:05:07] Jesse Fries:

That's nice. That's nice. Yeah.   Yeah.   But you know what? Won't   Our value for value mal model here at the The Mindless Meanderings.   We are a podcast   that,   works on donations. So please send us what you can. Any amount helps. If you have topics or anything like that that you'd want us to talk about, please let us know. You can email me at jesse@mindlessc.comorjamon@jamon@mindlessmeandreens.com.   And please send us your money, any amount. And if you wanna send in a note that we read on over the air live, because this is going live, guys.   We will do that.  

And as long as it's not   inappropriate, we'll do it. If it gets inappropriate, we won't read it over the   airwaves, but we will respond to you. So, yeah, please send us what you want, what you can. If you go to minus meanderings.com,   you can support us through the link there. It takes us takes you to PayPal,   or you could even   in your favorite podcast app, in the 2.0 ones, you can actually donate just in the podcast app itself.   So that's pretty cool.  

[01:06:17] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.  

[01:06:19] Jesse Fries:

And then let's see here.   So   apparently, we're closer to doomsday   is what they say now. They they keep changing this. Really? Yeah. Yeah. They you know, the doom day clock? Yeah.  

[01:06:32] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Now what's what's causing it to be closer this time?  

[01:06:36] Jesse Fries:

Just,   they they they they say Putin and whatnot, but I think it's just Trump.   Trump's in office somewhere. The world's gonna end sooner. Yeah. It's like they they factored in Putin, like, last year and the year before that,   and so on and so forth. They factored in other things. So so so this one because last year, it was 90   minutes to, or 90 seconds. 90 seconds to doomsday.   And now it's 89 seconds to doomsday. So I think they just factored in Trump.   Yeah. I think so. Yeah.   Wow.   Yeah. Yeah. The the the the the the that's my  

[01:07:18] Jamon Fries:

sorry. It's not what it's said. You know what that means, though.   What? It means that we're getting more efficient. We can do things quicker. I know. Right? We can enter the world much quicker now. Yep. Yep.  

[01:07:29] Jesse Fries:

Apparently, we're we're not far off than what it was during the cold war.   Actually,   it's,   after the cold war, like, dropped to, like, 15 minutes   even though there are nuclear missiles all around   old Soviet Union being,   yeah, stolen and whatnot. But, yeah. Yep.   Yep.   Isn't that crazy?  

[01:07:54] Jamon Fries:

It it really is. But, you know, talking about doomsday.  

[01:07:57] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[01:08:00] Jamon Fries:

The the cattle industry is in trouble now.  

[01:08:04] Jesse Fries:

How so?  

[01:08:06] Jamon Fries:

Because over in Korea, scientists have started putting meat into rice.  

[01:08:12] Jesse Fries:

What now?  

[01:08:14] Jamon Fries:

Yes. They they have they have they they they found that the, internal makeup of rice is very similar to the internal makeup of meat.   And so they have started implanting   meat cells into rice to make it so that we don't have to have as many   as many cattle.   You can eat your rice and get your meat protein.  

[01:08:35] Jesse Fries:

No.   No.   Yeah.   No.   Wow.   Wow.   Yeah. The   the rice been on this back. Moo.   Yeah.  

[01:08:57] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. This this this kinda just leads to something that I've been thinking about lately is that,   you know, all the things that they're doing now to   to saying that cattle and sheep are against the are harming the environment, so we need to get rid of them and stuff like that.   The meat prices.   Honestly, I don't think any of it has to do with actual concerns about any of that.   They are just trying to work turn the entire world vegan.  

[01:09:29] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. So some people are. Some people are. We we which makes no sense. Vegan is not a healthy lifestyle.  

[01:09:37] Jamon Fries:

No. It's not. Not even  

[01:09:39] Jesse Fries:

close.   So, yeah, some people   do it, but it's not a healthy lifestyle. So yeah. No. It's we're omnivores.   Get over it, people. Mhmm. You know, it's   it's like what? The the the lately, there's been this whole thing pushed back against, you know, oat milk.   Uh-huh. Yeah. They're going yeah. No. That's just basic carbs. That's all it is. It is. Yeah.   It's just carb slurry, you know, so and they add sugar to it and emulsifiers and everything like that. Yep.   You know, it's like all this crap trying to   make us what we're not is just ridiculous. It's like almond milk and things like that. The nut slurries. Yeah. You know, it's   Yeah. Just no. Just drink milk if you're gonna drink milk. And actually, it's been a big push lately. There's been a lot of people on TikTok saying just drink your whole milk. Hey, so I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. Sanity. Sanity.  



[01:10:32] Jamon Fries:

No. I mean, the the the problem that I have always seen with all of this is that they take the nut milks and they take the oat milk, and they're using it as a regular as regular milk is used.   Uh-huh. Okay. And, you know, I   that normally wouldn't be a large problem. However,   when you're using it for, like, cereal or oatmeal or anything like that,   you're not doing what's needed. The the reason that you use milk in those in cereal and stuff like that is because   wheat does not have a full protein.   Right. Right. Milk turns it into a full protein because of the protein enzymes that are in milk. Right. Without those enzymes,   it's completely useless and there's no nutrition to it. Oh, yeah.  



[01:11:18] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. Exactly.  

[01:11:20] Jamon Fries:

So, I mean, it's   to to to use a replacement that doesn't replace the enzymes that milk has   will never be efficient, will never work.  

[01:11:30] Jesse Fries:

Nope. It really won't. Yeah. I I've never understood it either. It's Yeah.   Why you go for this   stuff that is so processed? All of it is so processed. It it it Oh, yeah. But but then you   you complain about all the processing. You know, processed food is bad, but then you drink this ultra processed slurry.   Yeah. That should that should   separate,   but doesn't.   You you know? Yes. Hey. It's it's kinda crazy. Milk doesn't separate because, well, it's milk.   Yeah. The other things yeah.  

[01:12:07] Jamon Fries:

If you if you take oats and dump them into water, which is what oat milk is, is it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then pour out the, you know, filter out all of the oats.   Let it sit for a couple of weeks. You are going to see 2 definitive layers. Yep. Yep. Yep. But no. Not with all these emulsifiers. Anything used to to emulsify it to make it so that it's not means that they put extra crap into it.  

[01:12:32] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. That's,   not that I really care because I'll eat a Twinkle and whatnot, you know, or   or the cupcakes. I love those hostess cupcakes. Those are the best. Yes. Beyond anything else. But, yeah, it's,   yeah, never understood the nut slurries or the oat slurries.   Nut slurries.   I tried one in some coffee, and it nearly killed me. So, yeah, allergic reaction. No allergic reaction, but throat starts closing up. So yeah.   No. Thank you. No. Thank you.  

[01:13:05] Jamon Fries:

And, you know, to me, they just don't taste that good. Well You have to put so much artificial crap and sweeteners into them to make them taste decent   that I mean, you're basically drinking sugar water almost.  

[01:13:17] Jesse Fries:

No. That is basic especially oat milk. That that that's all it is. It's basically sugar water, because oats are just carbs, which is the sugar. So, yeah, it's just,   Yeah.   But let's see. What else do we got here?   The White House.   They they they've come out and said all those New Jersey drones that we were talking about, you know? Yeah. That that the Jersey people were going crazy about. Well,   the FAA, they were all pretty much all approved by the FAA.   So the FAA knew they were there. The military knew they were there. Everybody knew they were there. So  

[01:13:51] Jamon Fries:

and everybody knew what they were doing.  

[01:13:54] Jesse Fries:

Right. But they wouldn't say anything to the public. Yeah.   Yeah.  

[01:13:58] Jamon Fries:

And so these military people start going to the All they would have had to done is come out and say, all of those all of those drones you see up in the air, they are fed they are they are approved the they are flights that are approved by the FAA.   We know what their purpose is,   but due to the fact that most of them are private, we will not disclose that information.   Yep. That's Yep. All they would have had to have done, and none of this crap woulda happened.  

[01:14:24] Jesse Fries:

I know.   But now New Jersey people look like idiots.   So Yeah. Yeah.   UFOs, man. UFOs.  

[01:14:35] Jamon Fries:

Well, you know, I've I've been through New Jersey quite a few times, and, well, I don't know if it took this or that.   But I don't I'm not just kidding anybody that's in New Jersey. I am not serious about that. But If you don't trust your people to pump gas. Yeah.   That is true too.  

[01:14:59] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here.   I think that's it. I just have one good story to end this on with.   Okay. So apparently, there's a undertaker   in, I believe it's Ohio.   Because Ohio is weird. You know, Ohio means weird. Right? Yeah. Today's Lexicon.   So there's this undertaker   who wants to   liven up funerals.   Because funerals are they're they're they're drudgery and everything like that. So he has actually applied for a liquor license.   God bless the man.   Oh, wow. Nice. This is where I want my funeral to be. Either this or at a bar. I don't care. Yeah. Yeah. It's a you can drink if you want to or not if you don't, but, you know, alcohol should be there. You know? So  

[01:15:50] Jamon Fries:

Oh, absolutely.   Alcohol just makes everything better.  

[01:15:55] Jesse Fries:

It does. It does. And it it's led to human civilization.   You know? So Yes. It has. What can   you complain about?   So Yeah. Thank you all for joining us for this episode,   22 of the Mindless Meandering podcast. I'm Jesse Fries.   And I'm Jamin Fries. And you guys have a great week.